The Dictator Dating Game

Posted by on Aug 9, 2018 in Articles, Featured, Human Rights | 0 comments Voiceover: Here’s the star of the show and your host, Steve Bannon! Applause. Steve Bannon: Thank you! It’s great to be back in the limelight. And welcome once again to the Dictator Dating Game. It’s time to meet our eligible dictators. And heeeeere they are! Dictator number one is famous for all those great photos of him shirtless in the wilderness — riding horses, shooting bears, and...
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World to Refugees: Go to Hell

Posted by on Aug 7, 2018 in Articles, Featured, Human Rights | 0 comments It’s a famous story, though perhaps not famous enough. The 1939 voyage of the MS St. Louis, a German ocean liner, was recounted in a 1974 book and a 1976 film (both titled Voyage of the Damned) as well as a 1994 opera. This history is not forgotten. Yet so many unfortunate people around the world are still doomed to repeat it. In 1939, the MS St. Louis carried more than 900 Jewish refugees...
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Killmonger’s World

Posted by on May 16, 2018 in Articles, Featured, Human Rights | 0 comments Donald Trump has now assembled a cabinet of men that have elevated violence to a supreme virtue at home and abroad. Men like Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, and Trump himself. They are all firm believers in armed domination. In this respect, they share an unlikely bond with Erik Killmonger, the villain of the movie Black Panther. He’s an angry orphan who has been rejected by Wakanda, the magical...
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Trump to the International Community: Drop Dead

Posted by on May 16, 2018 in Articles, Featured, Human Rights | 0 comments Donald Trump has a plan to solve America’s drug crisis: kill the drug dealers. “We have pushers and drugs dealers, they are killing hundreds and hundreds of people,” Trump said at a recent White House summit on opioid abuse. “Some countries have a very, very tough penalty — the ultimate penalty — and by the way, they have much less of a drug problem than we do.” Trump claims he...
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Trump’s Majoritarian Dream

Posted by on Apr 8, 2018 in Articles, Asia, Featured, Human Rights, Russia and Eastern Europe | 0 comments Washington and New Dehli are having a mutual lovefest these days. Donald Trump is popular in India — where only 17 percent of the population considers the president “intolerant,” compared to a global average of 65 percent — and he has warmly welcomed Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the White House. Both leaders are eager to bump up bilateral security cooperation to the next...
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Trump and the Iran Protests

Posted by on Mar 2, 2018 in Articles, Featured, Human Rights | 0 comments The last time Iranians went out onto the streets in large numbers, they were protesting what they thought was a stolen election. It was 2009, and hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had convincingly won the presidency with roughly 63 percent to reformer Mir-Hossein Mousavi’s approximately 34 percent. Adopting their campaign’s green color, Mousavi’s supporters thronged the streets in...
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